BirdNestBen Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 red eye shad... YICK Helicopter lure... bought the kit and never got a strike!!! And the worst one... I'd give em all away if I didn't have to pay shipping on these are the dang discontinued Lucky Craft RC lures.. Haven't had a bite yet on em and paid thru the roof..... :laugh5: heeeee just kidding on the lucky crafts.... Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted November 28, 2012 Super User Posted November 28, 2012 Jigs. I own a thicket of them and bags and bags of grubs, lizards, tubes, and frogs, but other than Senkos, I've caught fewer than five smallies with them, which is weird and wrong, since soft baits are many fishers' best baits. I went fishing with another outdoor writer in September and I had him talk me through a couple bass in about five minutes. After the first few bottom bumps, it wasn't that hard to differentiate a hit and a hard spot, but it also wasn't that fun. I like the visuals of a surface bait and the range of spinners. Still, I'll keep buying soft baits. Sigh. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted November 28, 2012 Super User Posted November 28, 2012 Crankbaits, even shallow runners don't do to well in the locations I fish. I bought 1 a few days ago, took 2 outings until I caught a fish on it, now I can toss it the garbage with no guilt feeling, keeping intact of never having a lure I didn't catch a fish on. Quote
Super User Tuckahoe Joe Posted November 28, 2012 Super User Posted November 28, 2012 Crankbaits, even shallow runners don't do to well in the locations I fish. I bought 1 a few days ago, took 2 outings until I caught a fish on it, now I can toss it the garbage with no guilt feeling. Don't toss your cranks in the garbage. Send em my way! Quote
Super User Ratherbfishing Posted November 28, 2012 Super User Posted November 28, 2012 The quickest way for me to lose a bait is to tie on a "weedless" jig. I'm convinced they actively seek out every branch and crevace just to hear me swear. Quote
Traveler2586 Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 The quickest way for me to lose a bait is to tie on a "weedless" jig. I'm convinced they actively seek out every branch and crevice just to hear me swear. When I get hung up I'll send down a lure knocker (torpedo), or a chain type lure retriever, very very seldom do I loose a hung jig. With the chain retriever the chains seldom snag the hook but it allows my to repeatedly ram the lure by pulling on the retrievers line. Try it, hopefully, you'll keep your jigs. Quote
Super User Shane J Posted November 28, 2012 Super User Posted November 28, 2012 A few years ago when the Tru Tungsten came out with thier little hard bluegil swimbait, I got 2 of 'em (like $29 a piece), because they looked good, and I was playing around with cranks and trying some new stuff at the time. I couldn't catch a fish on that lure to save my life. One day, I gave one to my fishing partner to try out side by side with me, and he caught a few nice fish, but me..... nothin'. I went back to soft plastics and whooped him. Go figure. I gave both of 'em to my buddy. Quote
Hanover_Yakker Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 Strike King King Shad and 10" power worms. Quote
SudburyBasser Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 I must, and embarrassingly, confess I fell for the Banjo Minnow when it originally came out back in the early to mid-90s. I caught precisely one fish on it, a sucker. Still have the kit, sits forlorn on a shelf in a closet. Quote
Topwaterspook Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 I had the negative impression of the swim senkos. Could never get them rigged straight enough. Tried 'em on scrounger head jigs, started to catch a few . Quote
Run&Gun Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 I can't think of anything. If I give a bait enough time I'll start catching fish on it. I use to tear it up with chartreuse colored banjo minnows when I was younger. Quote
Super User MCS Posted December 6, 2012 Super User Posted December 6, 2012 [ Ribbon tail worms, heard so much hype about them, picked up a couple packs and have yet to get a bite. Ribbon tail worms are dynamite for me. Have you tried swimming them with a really light weight barely off the bottom? Just enough to get the tail going. Gets me tons of bites. Well after having sucess lately with lizards and weighted texas rig, I went back and gave them a try this morning. tried a 10" got some taps but not enought to engulf the bait, switched to 6.5" and got one. I think I will keep giving them a try here and there and see what coms of it. looking forward to it. Quote
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